Random Movie Trivia - Beetlejuice

Here is the next edition in our weekly Random Movie Trivia post.  Enjoy:

Beetlejuice

• Michael Keaton only spent two weeks filming his part in the film which only lasts 17.5 of the 92 minutes of the movie.  It's his favorite movie that he is in.
• The snake scene had already been filmed before Keaton had been cast and the original snake looked nothing like him, so they had to go back and do some stop-motion work to fix the scene.
• The studio disliked naming the movie "Beetlejuice" and wanted to go with "House Ghosts".  As a joke, director Tim Burton suggested calling the movie "Scared Sheetless" and was horrified when the studio actually considered it.
• The original script was a horror film, and featured Beetlejuice as a winged, reptilian demon who transformed into a small Middle Eastern man to interact with the Maitlands (Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis) and the Deetzes (Lydia's family). Lydia (Winona Ryder) was a minor character, with her six year old sister Cathy being the Deetz child able to see the Maitlands. Beetlejuice's goal was to kill the Deetzs, rather than frighten them away, and included sequences where he mauled Cathy in the form of a rabid squirrel and tried to rape Lydia. Subsequent script rewrites turned the film into a comedy and toned down Beetlejuice's character into the ghost of an wise cracking con-artist rather than a demon.  Good call.
• Catherine O'Hara replaced an ill Anjelica Houston for the role of Delia.
• Because of the movie's box office success, a sequel was written called Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian.  Keaton and Winona signed up for the movie, but Tim Burton lost interest and went on to direct the first two Batman movies.  Luckily, a sequel is finally in the works today.
• Tim Burton wanted Sammy Davis, Jr. to play Beetlejuice, but the studio didn't go for it.  The studio wanted Sam Kinison, but his agent failed to tell him about the part.  Also considered for the part was Dudley Moore.
• Juliette Lewis auditioned for the role of Lydia.  Diane Lane, Sarah Jessica Parker, Brooke Shields, Molly Ringwald, and Jennifer Connelly all turned it down.
• Spaceballs, Big, and Caddyshack 2, and Beetlejuice are the only PG movies to feature the word "fuck".

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